I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 56: Thousand Miles of Withered Yellow (First Update)
"Can't you just give me some?" Zhang Chen's voice was full of speechlessness, but facing the frozen soil, he had no choice but to look for dead branches, then light them and smoke them in the cave.

The soil was frozen like stone, and he couldn't dig it! This cold was obviously abnormal.

Zhang Chen lit the fire, then crawled out of the cave, carefully covered up the traces of the cave, and then used a Luoyang shovel to clear the surrounding weeds one by one, disguising the place as a barren mountain.

"This is a desolate mountain and wilderness, deep in the mountains and old forests. Ordinary people may not be able to set foot here, but we still need to take precautions." Zhang Chen took a look at the disguise and dealt with the matter of the ancient tomb, then Zhang Chen walked down the mountain.

"Hey, is that a herd of deer?" Zhang Chen was halfway there and had just climbed up a big mountain when he saw from a distance a group of sika deer eating withered wild grass in the mountains.

"It is indeed a herd of deer." Zhang Chen stared at it for a while, confirming that he was not mistaken, and couldn't help but reveal a hint of joy, as deer meat is a very nutritious food.

"Although the rivers are dry now, some vegetation can take root seven or eight meters deep and can still absorb water vapor from underground. Animals can chew plants when they are short of water and barely survive. I just don't know if the situation will continue to get worse." Zhang Chen thought to himself, if the situation gets worse, then it will be time for the wild animals to migrate.

"Although the air between heaven and earth is circulating, it cannot withstand the constant plundering of that dragon head." Zhang Chen's eyes flashed with golden light as he looked at the cloud-shaped dragon head in the dark, which was swallowing up water vapor from all directions of heaven and earth.

"This dragon energy is not roaring anymore. The last time the dragon roar collided with my protective golden light, it directly shook my protective golden light and caused me to lose a water control spell. Now I hope the dragon energy will attack again." Zhang Chen muttered to himself.

While checking the traps, I saw people everywhere on the mountains and plains. They were all lying on the ground, digging something hard.

Zhang Chen came to the trap, looked at his own trap, and couldn't help but frowned.

The trap mechanism was triggered, and there were even traces of the pheasant struggling on the ground, but the prey was gone.

"From now on, villagers from nearby villages will come to the mountains to dig up grass roots and tree bark. We have to change our hunting methods!" Zhang Chen muttered to himself.

"I need a weapon for long-range attacks, and I need to make a slingshot in advance. With the iron beads combined with the slingshot, I can kill ordinary pheasants and rabbits with one shot. Of course, the premise is that it must be accurate enough." Zhang Chen dismantled the trap directly, because more and more people will enter the mountain in the future, and the probability of his own trap not being discovered will become smaller and smaller.

After wandering around the mountain without any results, Zhang Chen returned to the cave and stuffed the small basket containing the bumblebees into the basket behind him. Zhang Chen glanced at the falcon.

They put the falcon in a cage, covered it with clothes, and carried it down the mountain.

After a few days, the villagers were so hungry that they ran around in the mountains. If someone caught the falcon, the falcon would be dead. And he couldn't let the falcon fly around. What if the hungry people followed the falcon's trail and caught him?
Back in the village, the village chief was gathering the people to prepare to dig a new well. Zhang Chen looked at the people digging the well and couldn't help but shook his head secretly:

"There is no water to be dug out. The five-meter underground water in the village has dried up. It has all been sucked away by the dragon."

Zhang Chen walked in the village, and after a walk around he realized that there was no water underground in the village.

Nothing happened that night, except that the vixen came swaggering with a wooden bucket and filled her house with water. Seeing the vixen carrying a bucket of water away, Zhang Chen's eyes showed a cold light: "I still need ten points of experience, and we will know the result tomorrow!"

On the second day, just as the sky was getting light, Zhang Chen was awakened from his sleep by screams:
"Oh no! The crops in the fields are dying from drought!"

"Oh my God, how are we, a family of five, supposed to survive?"

"Oh my God, please open your eyes and take a look. Are you going to kill us all?"

……

The villagers were wailing, and the mournful cries woke Zhang Chen up. He quickly opened the door and walked out. The first thing he saw was the dry grass that had died of drought in the yard.

Zhang Chen walked cautiously to the dry grass and stretched out his hand to touch it, but the dry grass broke into two pieces as soon as it touched Zhang Chen's fingertips, and it was dry and without any moisture.

Zhang Chen's pupils shrank upon seeing this, his eyes full of disbelief. After a little thought, he frowned, "I understand. The dragon cannot directly extract moisture from vegetation, but it can directly extract moisture from the air. The moisture in the air decreases, and the rate of moisture evaporation from the grass is of course faster. In addition, the grass does not have the nourishment of groundwater, so it is normal for it to be dried overnight with only outflow and no inflow."

What worries Zhang Chen the most is that the reduction of moisture in the air will inevitably lead to a reduction of water in the human body, and then it will be people and animals that will die of thirst.

How many days can a person survive without water?

Two days? Or three days?
Zhang Chen walked out of the yard and followed the crowd towards the fields. Looking from afar, he saw the fields were all withered and yellow. Some people were sitting in the fields with lifeless eyes, and others were lying in the fields, looking at the withered seedlings and crying, their voices filled with sorrow.

"Fortunately, I have mastered the art of controlling water. Unfortunately, my art can only gather water vapor within five meters around my body, and it cannot save the people of the world. Because of the drought, a chain reaction will occur. The prices of medicinal materials in the mountains will skyrocket, the prices of food will also skyrocket, and the cost of living such as food, clothing, housing and transportation will all increase. We will be in big trouble!" Zhang Chen's heart was filled with a sense of urgency. He had to dig up the grave as soon as possible and upgrade his skills so as to get rid of the constraints of the fox spirit and escape from this purgatory on earth.

"I have two goals today. One is to upgrade my first skill, and the other is to capture a sika deer. I also keep a hunting falcon, which requires a lot of food. The reason why I didn't capture the sika deer in the past was because there was a fox spirit, and I didn't want to let the fox spirit get away with it. Now that my first skill is about to be upgraded, I am going to use the sika deer to test the details of the fox spirit." There was a hint of coldness in Zhang Chen's eyes. If he had the opportunity to subdue demons, he would never show mercy.

How can a fox girl smell as good as a fox fur collar!

"Of course, if I can suppress the vixen, ask the vixen to steal money from the rich, do my laundry and fold my quilts, and let me be a person who doesn't have to worry about life in this world, that would be perfect. At least I have to catch the vixen and take her to perform in the streets. With the vixen's skills, there will definitely be no shortage of rich people to reward her." Zhang Chen was very happy: "Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west. I am getting stronger every day. Sooner or later, you, the vixen, will be killed by me."

He himself didn't have the means to move the money, but the vixen did? She could just go to the rich family and move the money. This was simply killing two birds with one stone, punishing evil and promoting good!
"That fox spirit can leave its body, so maybe I can communicate with it and use the opportunity to analyze the mystery and obtain the fox spirit's practice method. I don't know if there is any secret of immortality in this world!" Zhang Chen's thoughts were a little scattered, but he still preferred to find a skill that could prolong his life. As long as he kept adding points, sooner or later he would be able to gain immortality.

(End of this chapter)